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and given every two hours ; the dog should be kept very 

 warm during its operation, and should be supplied fre- 

 quently with new milk or water-gruel. If this medicine 

 occasions sickness, or brings on great laxity in the bowels, 

 the doses must be temporarily stopped, or greatly diminished. 



The above dose is sufficient for a pointer, fox-hound, 

 harrier, or other large dog of ten months old. If younger 

 or a smaller dog, the quantities must be proportionally 

 diminished. 



Mr. Shaw, principal gamekeeper to his grace the Duke of 

 Euccleugh, at Dalkeith, has generally found the distemper 

 easily disposed of by attending to the first symptoms of the 

 disease, and immediately administering a dose of calomel 

 and jalap every second day, and paying strict attention to 

 the food of the patient. He seldom found it necessary to 

 give more than three doses. He has, however, remarked, 

 that when the disease begins with a flux, it generally proves 

 fatal. This discharge is brought on by cold, and by sleep- 

 ing in damp quarters. He mentions having lost several 

 brace of greyhounds from one night's bad lodging. 



Mr. Daniel is of opinion that Blaine's medicine is an 

 eifectual remedy : it is made up in packets, marked with 

 different numbers, 1, 2, and 3. For a Newfoundland dog, 

 mastiff, pointer, and setter, No. 1 should be used ; for fox- 

 Tiounds, harriers, and other dogs of a middling size, use 

 No. 2 ; and for cockers, and all other varieties. No. 3 will 

 prove a sufficient dose. He found that soon after adminis- 

 tering Blaine's powders, even although the disease had got 

 to a height, the violence of the symptoms abated, the 

 spasms became less frequent, and generally within twenty- 

 four hours they completely subsided, leaving only a slight 

 discharge from the nose. Our own experience completely 

 coincides with that of Mr. Daniel, although in some in. 



